DR. MESFIN TSIGE
Professor of Polymer Science
Computational Polymer Science
Research Interests:
Tsige's research interests include computational polymer science
and soft condensed matter physics, structure and dynamics of
molecules at surfaces and interfaces, elastic and failure behavior of
thermosetting
polymers,
molecular
transport
through
nanostructured materials and interaction of water with surfaces.
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Industrial Sector Focus:
Advancing discovery through scientific computing
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Unique Laboratory Facilities:
Tsige’s group has a 32-node 2.8 GHz AMD Opteron cluster and
two NVIDA GeForce GTX480 graphics processing units
(GPUs).
Department of
Polymer Science
The University of Akron, OH
330-972-5631
[email protected]
http://www.uakron.edu/cpspe/facultyresearch/profile.dot?
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Biography:
Recent Publications/Patents:
1.
Ram S. Bhatta, I. P. Padmanabha and Mesfin Tsige,
“First-principle calculations of enthalpy and O-H stretching
frequency in hydrogen-bonded acid-base complexes”,
Modern Physics Letters B, 28, 1430014 (2014) [Invited
article].
2.
Joseph Johnson, Lashanda Korely, and Mesfin Tsige,
“Coarse-Grained Modeling of Peptidic/PDMS Triblock
Morphology,” J. Phys. Chem. B, 118, 13718-13728 (2014).
3.
Kshitij C. Jha, He Zhu, Ali Dhinojwala and Mesfin Tsige,
“Molecular Structure of Poly(methyl methacrylate) Surface
II: Effect of Stereoregularity Examined through All-atom
Molecular Dynamics,” Langmuir, 30, 12775-12785 (2014).
Mesfin Tsige is an Associate
Professor at the Department of
Polymer Science at the University of
Akron. He obtained B.S. and M.S.
degrees in Physics from Addis Ababa 4.
University, Ethiopia. He received the
Ph.D. degree in condensed matter
physics from Case Western Reserve
University in 2001. He then went to
Sandia National Laboratories and
after four years as post-doctoral
researcher he joined the faculty in the 5.
department of Physics at Southern
Illinois University at Carbondale,
achieving the rank of Associate
Professor before moving to the
6.
University of Akron in 2010.
Awards:/Accomplishments:
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NSF CAREER Award (2009)
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ORAU POWE Junior Faculty
Enhancement Award (2007)
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Graduate Fellow of the German
Academic Exchange Service
(DAAD) (1991-1994)
He Zhu, Kshitij C. Jha, Ram S. Bhatta, Mesfin Tsige and
Ali Dhinojwala, “Molecular Structure of Poly(methyl
Methacrylate) Surface I: Combination of InterfaceSensitive Infrared-visible Sum Frequency Generation,
Molecular Dynamics Simulations, and ab initio
Calculations,” Langmuir, 30, 11609-11618 (2014).
Ram S. Bhatta and Mesfin Tsige, “Effect of Fluorination on
Electronic Properties of Polythienothiophene-cobenzodithiophenes and Their Fullerene Complexes”, ACS
Applied Materials & Interfaces, 6, 15889-15896 (2014).
Ram S. Bhatta and Mesfin Tsige, “Chain length and
torsional dependence of exciton binding energies in P3HT
and PTB7 conjugated polymers: A first-principles study,”
Polymer, 55, 2667 (2014).
7.
Yeneneh Y. Yimer, Kshitij C. Jha and Mesfin Tsige,
“Epitaxial transfer through end-group coordination
modulates the odd–even effect in an alkanethiol
monolayer assembly,” Nanoscale, 6, 3496 (2014).
8.
Ram S. Bhatta, Mesfin Tsige and David S. Perry,
“Torsionally-induced Blue Shift of the Band Gap in Poly(3hexylthiophene),” Journal of Computational and
Theoretical Nanoscience, 11, 1 (2014).